On the left is the Portland Energy Centr, a natural gas powered power plant that opened in 2008 and on the right is the Hearn Generating Station, a decommissioned coal-fired plant that opened in 1951 and closed in 1983.
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20160224. From Dow Corning to Church of the Resurrection, another great Macy Dubois modernist building (1965).
20160223. A transmission tower that changes the direction of power.
20160222. Crossing the Red Line. Minimal Aesthetic 85.
20160221. The Old Don Jail restored to its original stunning beauty II.
20160220. The Old Don Jail restored to its original stunning beauty.
20160219. The facade of an inverted brutalist ziggurat.
20160218. Bye Hilton Garden Inn (200 Dundas E), hello Dundas Square Gardens (condos).
The hotel was originally a mid-century modernist office building with some redeeming elements as shown in the image below from the 1960’s. Thanks to Chuckman’s Photos on WordPress (https://chuckmantorontonostalgia.wordpress.com/).
20160217. The sublime River City 1 blends brilliantly with blue sky.
20160216. Looking up at Toronto’s gleaming 777 Bay St at dusk (c.1983, Webb Zerafa Menkes).
20160215. Below Toronto’s Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute double helix pedestrian bridge at St. Michael’s Hospital.
20160214. Large scale minimal art in Toronto’s new Bay Adelaide Centre East. Minimal Aesthetic 84.
20160213. An aerial view of the heritage-listed Clarence Square Building at 49 Spadina Street in Toronto.
Architects Sproatt and Rolph, c.1911.
Formerly the Steele Briggs Seed Company warehouse.
20160212. Going to great heights to cast filming light into Toronto’s King Edward Hotel Ballroom.
20160211. Getting ready to shoot at Balzac’s across from Toronto’s St. Lawrence Market.
20160210. H&M has a new and intensely bright facade at Toronto’s CF (Cadillac Fairview) Eaton Centre.
20160209. Turquoise Celeste Cyan and Blue. In Queen West triangles and parallelograms are of such hue. Minimal Aesthetic 83.
20160208 Ready to break ground for Yonge and Rich condos in Toronto.
20160206. Toronto’s new Brant Park Condos provide a great backdrop for an old boutique office building on Camden Street.
20160206. Beare’s Limited, a five story brick and beam building, rises above.
Toronto c.1910
20160205. Monochrome precast 6m hollow concrete sphere.
This decaying globe and sundail will remain once Toronto’s Harbour Square park is redesigned along with the ferry terminal.
20160204. Toronto’s Telus House tower stands out in the southcore.
20160203. Toronto’s impressive 60 Richmond housing cooperative caught by a setting sun.
20160202. A crane now rises from the E Condos north building site at Yonge and Eglinton.
20160131. East United condos shall retain the original 1906 Christie, Brown & Co. Stables masonry in Old Town Toronto.
